Building record 1301/13/1 - Berrister House, Berrister Place (Former Rectory House)

Rectory, now house. Early C18th and early C19th. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof.

{1} Rectory, now house. Early C18th and early C19th. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally U-shape plan, now double-depth. Two storeys with attic. Main front of 5-window range. Central C19th part-glazed door has panelled reveals, fanlight with glazing bars and moulded wood surround. Sash windows with glazing bars under gauged stone heads. Moulded stone cornice and hipped roof with 3 hipped roof dormers with casement windows. Brick and stone stacks at ridge. Elevation to left has similar sash windows with wood lintels. Rear elevation has 2 projecting wings with hipped roofs and C19th single-storey lean-to between. Similar sash windows, one is tripartite. Interior has early C18th staircase with turned balusters, stone flagged floors and remains of large open fireplace with bressumer in room to right of entrance. Deeds of house date from C14th when it was a rectory belonging to The College of Newark, Leicester. It became lay property at the Dissolution of the Monastery after which part of the grounds were granted for the building of a new vicarage. (Northamptonshire County Records Office).

{3} Three undated photos;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/107 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G07 p.55 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Photographs of buildings in Raunds (Photographs). SNN112980.

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Feb 24 2022 10:53AM